New Delhi: Team India’s season-opening Test match recieved a cold response as empty seats at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad caught attention on the first two days of the first Test. India are playing their first series at home in the new World Test Championship (cycle), facing the West Indies in the two-match series.

The Shubman Gill-led side opened their WTC 2025-27 campaign with a commendable 2-2 draw in England two months ago. The highly entertaining Anderson-Tendulkar trophy witnessed huge crowd turnouts across all five matches, but that hasn’t been the case at the start of the opening match of India’s home season.

Facing a low-key opposition like the West Indies might be a big factor in the low turnout, but the biggest reason for the lack of interest, perhaps, is the absenc

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